At this time, the clothes of the villagers in the persimmon bay area mainly relied on homespun cloth, which is what people here call "cotton cloth". The production team issues "cloth tickets" according to the population every year, and a person has a two-foot cloth ticket a year, and goes to the store to buy foreign cloth with the cloth ticket.

Foreign cloth is relative to cotton cloth, to be precise, relative to homespun cloth, that is, the cloth spun by machines in the factory. If you don't have a cloth ticket, the supply and marketing cooperatives won't sell you foreign cloth, but if you have a cloth ticket and no money, you won't be able to buy foreign cloth.

Cotton cloth and foreign cloth have their own advantages, cotton cloth is warm, but rough and thick. The foreign cloth is not warm, but it is delicate, thin and beautiful, and no matter how capable the daughter-in-law is, she cannot weave a thin, thin and beautiful cotton cloth like the foreign cloth, so the young generally still like the foreign cloth.

Mom and Dad always want to dress up their children to be a little more beautiful than other people's homes. Even if there are no conditions, I will do my best to give the better to my children and leave the suffering to myself.

In the past, when the children were small, in order to save money, the Ye family almost did not buy foreign cloth all year round, but wore homespun cloth, and the excess cloth tickets were sold to people.

Now that the dog baby and the apricot have grown up and gone to school, dressing up the child is the mother's heart, and the leaves no longer sell cloth tickets.

Gradually, the day began to get hot, and it would be Children's Day for a while, Ye Zi took out a bulging red jacket from the crateboard, and took out a wrapped handkerchief from the pocket of the clothes.

took out the money he had slowly saved, counted it, left some of the necessary things at home, took the cloth ticket, rode his bicycle and headed to Qingxi Town.

When he arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, Ye Zi took out the size he had calculated in advance, and bought a few cheap pieces of cloth, which were the leftover pieces of cloth sold by others, including blue, green, white, and small flowers.

Coming out of the supply and marketing cooperative, Ye Zi didn't go shopping, and went straight home, measuring and cutting, and made new clothes for the children with stitches and threads.

By this time, the style of clothing in the countryside had changed compared to before. In the past, both adults and children were Chinese-style, but now it has changed to Western-style.

As far as the blouse is concerned, the men's one has four pockets and the women's one has two pockets.

As for Western-style pants, the main differences from Chinese-style pants are the waist, seam and pockets.

There are many children in the village, and there is no red all year round, and the children make new clothes at most twice a year, once before the Spring Festival, and the other before Children's Day.

As for adults, it's not necessarily, sewing and mending is common, and it's a New Year's holiday or a red and white celebration or something, as long as you don't wear patched clothes.

Ye Zi hurried to make new clothes for all three children the night before Children's Day. The dog baby and the second dog are white shirts and blue pants, and the apricots are naturally small floral shirts and green pants.

She said to her husband Guiwa: In previous years, they all made cotton cloth, but this time they made foreign cloth for all three children, and the baby's family must be happy.

But who knew that Ergou was unhappy, so he had to wear green pants like Xing'er. It is said that green pants are worn by girls, but these two dogs are not good. Fortunately, Ergou is only three and a half years old and does not go to school. In the afternoon of the next day, Ye Zi coaxed Ergou to Liuwan.

"Grandma. The second dog shouted as soon as he entered the door. "Yo, the second dog is here. "Ah, people are making trouble in the house. "What's the matter?" "I have to wear those green pants." ”

"Hehe, you're a kid, dare you be your daughter's family? "I don't care, I want the green one." ”

"Hehe, I'm still fastidious. "Pay attention to his ghostly mile, he can wear it clean for a few days." ”

"It doesn't matter, it needs it. "Ah, yes. "Hehe, the second dog is a neat baby. Grandma touched the second dog's head and said. "Hey, hey. ”

"Say, look at the piece left over from the clothes made for Jiaojiao by my sister-in-law. "Ah, if not, let's see if there is one over there in Dowa, and Yanyan also wears the green one." "Hmm. ”

"Boy, it's still old and difficult. Grandma smiled and teased Ergou's face and said. "That's it, I've never seen this baby. ”

"When the baby is older, he knows that he has fought for himself. "Ah, yes, but it's good for himself. ”

As a result, I found a piece of green-colored foreign cloth from Ye Zi's sister-in-law Xian'er, and I could make a pair of pants for Ergou, but it was a little thicker, and people made the rest of the pants worn in winter. But Ergou has to have green pants, no way, so he has to do this.

Coming back from Liuwan, Ye Zi made a pair of green pants for Ergou with a needle and a thread. The second dog was relieved and stopped making trouble.

One afternoon, the wife of the Ma family on the shore of Chibo led the crying little daughter to Ye Zi's house, saying that the second dog had beaten her little daughter, and her arms were bruised.

The mother-in-law of the Liang family hurriedly stepped forward to make amends, didn't she say: "Oh, Sensei cry, daughter, wait for the second dog to come and beat him." As he spoke, Ergou entered the door.

"Ergou, come here! Ye Zi shouted angrily in front of the mother and daughter. Ergou slowly came over and squinted at the mother and daughter. "It's good to have fun together, why do you fight?"

She scolded. "Scold you, dare to hit someone?" Ergou rolled his eyes, tilted his head to the side and didn't say anything.

"If that's the case again, let's stop playing with him. The wife of the Ma family turned back to her daughter and said. "If you don't play, you won't play, who is rare?" shouted Ergou. "You thief, you beat someone, are you still reasonable?" Ye Zi raised his hand to beat the second dog.

But Ergou hurriedly dodged and defended himself: "I told her that she was scolded, and she still had to scold." Don't hit her?!"

"You listen to the two (things) clearly, it's not too late for you to beat the baby again. The mother-in-law of the Liang family said to Ye Zi while protecting the second dog.

"She's a woman, you're a kid, should you dare to let it go?"

"Then she's still bigger than the forehead, shouldn't she dare to give the forehead!" Ergou retorted.

"Then you shouldn't hit someone. Ye Zi taught the second dog a lesson. "That's it, why are you kid's family beating your daughter's family?" the Ma family's wife answered.

"She scolded her mother, didn't she hit her?" "Scold your mother?" "Well, she scolded her mother for being a second marriage." "This thief woman, what nonsense is you talking about! The Ma family's wife scolded and pulled her daughter back.

The fight stained his clothes, and Ergou's new pants were just worn for half a month, so they were thrown aside and not worn. In fact, it's too hot to wear anymore.

In a blink of an eye, it was the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the leaves were steamed for the children to eat as in previous years.

Just because there is less white flour and more black flour at home, I made a few white noodles, and the rest were made with sorghum flour mixed with white flour (wheat flour is called white flour in this area, and multigrain flour is called black flour).

Everyone who makes noodles is to send a little noodles the night before, and the next morning, mix the noodles and flour with warm water, take them to the board and knead them several times, knead them into small balls, and then knead them into strips the thickness of a rolling pin, and cut them into small sections.

Then, take out a wooden mold carved with a villain, sprinkle a little dry flour in the mold, press the noodles into the mold, and then turn it over and knock it, and pour out a neatly dressed and well-rounded face.

Pick up the noodles one by one on the kang covered with steamed buns and cover them with quilts. After about an hour, uncover the corners of the quilt and gently touch it on the noodle with your finger, and if the spot is immediately bounced up and restored, you can steam it in the pot. After steaming, cool down a little, and you're good to go.

Ye Zi first took out five white noodles and put them on a wooden plate, brought them to the offering table, then poured a small bowl of boiling water, put two pairs of chopsticks on it, called the children over, let the dog baby put three pillars of incense, the family knelt down, burned the paper, kowtowed three heads, brought down the small bowl with boiling water on the offering table, and sprinkled a water line on the paper ash.

It's just that in the process of memorial, the careful Ye Zi saw that Ergou was afraid of dirty pants, and his knees did not fall to the ground, so he went through the process in a fake manner, but Ye Zi did not count the baby on the spot. After dinner, Ye Zi said to tell a story, and the children gathered around.

Ye Zi said: In ancient times, there was a great drought for many years, and every household ran out of grain except for seeds. The pigs, dogs, cows, and sheep that could be killed were all killed, and the wild vegetables and tree bark were all eaten, but it still didn't rain that day, and there was no harvest in the wheat day.

There was no way, so the adults decided: to protect the seeds, eat people's lives, eat the little babies first, and then eat the elderly, so as to protect the young and the prime. Every household changed to kill the baby, cooked it and ate it separately.

And so it went day after day, until at last it rained and the famine was over. In order to let people remember the principle of preparing for famine in a good year, and also to pay tribute to those who were killed and eaten, the custom of taking noodles to pay tribute to their ancestors on July 15 was handed down.

"Hehe, where did you hear about this old sesame rotten grain?" Guiwa said with a smile. "What people are talking about is all handed down by the old man. The mother-in-law of the Liang family said a word about the precious baby. Guiwa went out with a fan.

"Who are the ancestors?" asked Xing'er. "It's a loved one who has died. "Dare to really eat people?" Ergou asked. "Not really. It's also impossible. If you want to live young, you have to eat the baby and the elderly. ”

"It's useless to dare to be a little baby and an old man?" Ergou asked rhetorically. "Hey, what can you do little ball?" "Hehe, I'm still doing my job. The dog baby said to the second dog with a smile.

"You dare to eat human flesh?" Ergou asked Xing'er. "Hehe, don't you dare. Apricot said. "There is a sentence in the ancient text that you have learned, 'Yi Zi eats'. …… The teacher said that choice is a trade-off, and a trade-off is painful. The dog baby chimed in.

"How dare you really?" "That's still fake, I heard that human flesh is rolled when cooked." "Rolled?" "Well, it's rolled up, and it can't be unfolded." "Sensei said, I'm afraid. Apricot said timidly.

The dog baby smiled and asked, "If there is really nothing to eat, who will eat first in our house?" The second dog replied, "Eat grandma first." Xing'er smiled and said, "If you don't eat it, it's definitely not delicious." ”

"Then eat the second dog first. "That's not going to work. Ergou said and hid beside her mother. "No, you're asleep, you know a fart?"

"Mom, they're bullying me again, I'm afraid. Ergou hugged his mother's arm and said. "These two thieves are scaring the baby. ”

"It's a joke. Stories teach people to be economical and respect their ancestors. "The dog baby is serious. "Oh. Ergou blushed unconsciously. "Hey, hey. Ye Zi smiled and glanced at Ergou.

It was late at night, and the mosquitoes in the house were almost smoked by the moxa. So the family went back to sleep.

Looking at the children who are growing up day by day, Ye Zi seems to remember something again, although he is very sleepy, he still can't sleep for a while.